wyszukanych pozycji: 107
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Ladies' Man
ISBN: 9780312566524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kenny Becker just dumped his girlfriend--the reasons are a little complex. Young and newly unemployed, his main assets at the moment are six-pack abs and a healthy libido--he's ready to get out, find a little action, and maybe find himself too. But New York is no place for the lonely, and with one meaningless sexual encounter after another, Kenny begins to wonder if the singles scene is not itself a complete con job, with his heart and his future at stake. Raunchy, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt, this 1978 clubland slice-of-life displays Richard Price in gritty good form. Kenny Becker just dumped his girlfriend--the reasons are a little complex. Young and newly unemployed, his main assets at the moment are six-pack a... |
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88,42 zł |
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Observations On Reversionary Payments: On Schemes For Providing Annuities For Widows And For Persons In Old Age (1771)
ISBN: 9780548690789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On The Method Of Calculating The Values Of Assurances On Lives; And On The National Debt: To Which Are Added Four Essays.
On The Method Of Calculating The Values Of Assurances On Lives; And On The National Debt: To Which Are Added Four Essays.
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150,66 zł |
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Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa
ISBN: 9780521889681 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. What did the British make of the Xhosa and how did they make sense of their politics and culture? How did the British establish and then explain their dominion, especially when it ran counter to the cultural values they believed themselves to represent? In this book, Richard Price answers these questions by looking at the ways in which individual missionaries, officials and politicians interacted with the Xhosa. He describes how those encounters changed and shaped...
This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. What did the British...
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676,42 zł |
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Clockers
ISBN: 9780747598206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Rocco Klein, veteran homicide detective, has had enough of life on the edge. When a summer night brings another drug-related murder he has no sense that the case is anything special. Then a man steps forward to confess but a little digging reveals he's never been in trouble, whereas his half-brother has.
Rocco Klein, veteran homicide detective, has had enough of life on the edge. When a summer night brings another drug-related murder he has no sense th...
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66,45 zł |
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Serving Our Country and Paying The Price: The Story of Recon 2/502
ISBN: 9781419606021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dick Price's book sheds light on the mindset of combat veterans and helps the reader to better understand the lasting effects of Vietnam on those who served. His firsthand account will serve as a source of peace of mind for veterans and families of veterans alike.
Dick Price's book sheds light on the mindset of combat veterans and helps the reader to better understand the lasting effects of Vietnam on those who ...
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70,70 zł |
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Clockers
ISBN: 9780312426187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today) At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer, on opposite sides of an endless war. Clockers is "powerful . . . harrowing . . . remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review). Novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay ... |
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96,84 zł |
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Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology
ISBN: 9780820362656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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121,89 zł |
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The Breaks
ISBN: 9780312566517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the Bestselling Author of Lush Life Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising careers, he jumps from job to job---mail clerk, phone solicitor, stand-up comic---until he breaks down and starts phoning in bomb threats on his own house. He's going to have to work hard to change the pattern of self-sabotage that has defined most of his life. And taking that job at his alma mater as a teacher of freshman comp and starting an affair... From the Bestselling Author of Lush Life Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the r... |
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105,26 zł |
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Freedomland
ISBN: 9780385335133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The celebrated author of Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date. A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night. So begins Richard Price's electrifying new novel, a tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, New Jersey--as Clockers. Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is detective Lorenzo Council,...
The celebrated author of Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date. A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, ...
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84,21 zł |
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The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553: With Related Texts on the Three Chapters Controversy
ISBN: 9781846311789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Council of Constantinople of 553 (often called Constantinople II or the Fifth Ecumenical Council) has been described as 'by far the most problematic of all the councils', because it condemned two of the greatest biblical scholars and commentators of the patristic era Origen and Theodore of Mopsuestia and because the pope of the day, Vigilius, first condemned the council and then confirmed its decisions only under duress. The present edition makes accessible to the modern reader the acts of the council, session by session, and the most important related documents, particularly those that...
The Council of Constantinople of 553 (often called Constantinople II or the Fifth Ecumenical Council) has been described as 'by far the most problemat...
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735,07 zł |
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Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology
ISBN: 9780820363059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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719,26 zł |
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Bolero Tropical
ISBN: 9781536847178 / Francuski / Miękka / 2018 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,10 zł |
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My Bully Is Called, [....]
ISBN: 9781535308298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,74 zł |
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Samaritan
ISBN: 9780375725135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to Detective Nerese Ammons, a friend from childhood, who now sets out to unlock the secret of his reticence. Set against the intensely realized backdrop of urban America, the cat and mouse game that unfolds is both morally complex and utterly gripping.
Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives o...
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71,58 zł |
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Bloodbrothers
ISBN: 9780312428693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eighteen-year-old Stony De Coco has to make a choice: either join his father in the tightly knit world of New York's construction unions or take off and find his own path. But Stony's family is not about to make that choice easy. As he tries to protect his little brother, Albert, from their dangerously unbalanced mother, and to postpone the difficult adult responsibilities that await him, he finds hope in a job working with children at a hospital--a job that promises not to make anyone happy but Stony. Richard Price's Bloodbrothers is a soulful and often profane story of... Eighteen-year-old Stony De Coco has to make a choice: either join his father in the tightly knit world of New York's construction unions or take of... |
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75,79 zł |
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Late Gifts
ISBN: 9781800173491 / Miękka / 2023 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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66,45 zł |
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Maroons in Guyane: Past, Present, Future
ISBN: 9780820362458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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719,26 zł |
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Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
ISBN: 9780226680583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, "Travels with Tooy" recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals.
Included... Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encou...
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429,24 zł |
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An Imperial War and the British Working Class: Working-Class Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War, 1899-1902
ISBN: 9780415848312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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254,81 zł |
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Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies
ISBN: 9780367565794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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188,55 zł |